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I got my first job at 21. I dont know anyone IRL that was older than me before their first job. I'm spoiled as fuck.

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17

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I think 15. I was hired to deliver a bunch of pamphlets or something around town for a day.

My first after school job was at 16.

15. i helped a guy dj weddings and parties for a few years in high school.

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I started working since I was around 8. Bussing tables at a restaurant and filling the water pitchers.

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17

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I think I was 17, it was a high school internship that worked more like a part time job and I ended up staying there for like 4 years. Pay was decent and it stopped being an internship when I graduated high school.

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I got my first real part-time job around 18, but I had a part-time job as a soccer ref for my Township before that which I don't really count because it was only two or three games a weekend during soccer season.

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14, my best friend and i worked with his uncle doing landscaping/tree cutting/ light home renovation. Worked weekends,he paid us 200 for two days of work. It was nice tbh.

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16 at Walmart

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14

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18

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16, busboy at a restaurant

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14 or 15, bagger at a grocery store

I always worked with my Dad(who was in the grocery business) on some weekends before I got a legitimate job, as in a job with an actual paycheck. Always got paid in cash when I worked with him.
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I first got on the books when I was 20, but been hustling since I was 9 or 10. I'd do every thing from sell candy to cut grass in the neighborhood for my SNES games lol. I would fix bikes and computers as a teen, but my friends started hustling in street pharmaceuticals, lmao. They made my hustles feel like I was doing too much for too little, lol.

I REALLY wanted medical benefits as I started looking towards the future, though. So I got my first tax paying job when I was 20 and decided I wasn't going anywhere without benefits if I could help it.

In adulthood I've added a few trade skills so I can always have a hustle to supplement my income. Carpentry and stuff. I need to get better as an auto mechanic though. I'll probably just take a course and get my certificate or something.
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I am 33 and haven't had a job yet. Don't feel bad

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21 as well iirc. I have a bit of an excuse though. I got a decently sized legal settlement when I turned 18 from a car accident that happened when I was 9. I just used that money to coast for a few years.

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20

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16 at a warehouse. You know all those amazon workers whining about their warehouse jobs. Well shitty warehouse jobs existed long before Amazon.

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17 work-study

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17

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17, just after graduating from high school. I worked in retail at Mervyn's.

Edit: Actually, I had worked for them for like 3 days as part of a high school project when I was 16, so 16

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14 or 15 helping in catering business

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18

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17

Graduated high school on a Friday, started work at the factory the following Monday.

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Like 8 or 9. Wasn't a real job, obviously. I was mostly just there to make sure dad didn't hurt himself working alone, but I did move stuff around and whatnot too.

Was 12 when I first started working full-time. Also with dad. That was definitely a real job though.

Was 18 when I first worked for someone else.

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12

I got my first real part time job at 19.

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16 Pizza Hut. Dish rat.

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11 delivery

13. I worked at the public library. I think pay was like $8.25 or around there when I started, and five years later when I moved on it was something like $9.50. Student minimum wage. The boss would fire people who asked for raises. Thankfully minimum wage kept going up. I really loved that job and still have dreams sometimes that Im working there.

16. It was a summer job at a printing plant that I had for 3 years. The last two years I started working weekends there during the school year as well. It was decent money but hard work.

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15. mini golf course

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14 newspaper boy in the mid 90's. at this particular business i was also responsible for collecting payment which was always fun. -_-

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14, dishwasher at a restaurant. I still work at the same restaurant actually, never had a different job, though I did get promoted to making salad and deserts, then to take out and making pizzas, then to line cook, and there I still am while also being kitchen manager twice a week.

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First unofficial job was at 12 or 13 helping my grandpa dig and install septic tanks

First official job was at 15 at a gas station

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17. I was a bagger at a grocery store for a year and a half.

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16 at a call center

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I was 16 when I got a summer job as a secretary for a home business.

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